2025 beat the backlog challenge

13 participants (58 books)

01 Jan 202531 Dec 2025

Overview

Join me in slimming down those bookshelves by reading 12 (or more!) books you already own in 2025. 

Choose to do as a kindle or physical clear out but for books to count they should be titles you already owned a copy of prior to 1 Jan 2025.

Challenge Books

All books added

525 pages first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction historical emotional informative reflective medium-paced

446 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction fantasy science fiction adventurous funny fast-paced

578 pages first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction contemporary romance emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

255 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction science adventurous funny reflective slow-paced

431 pages first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction fantasy magical realism emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

260 pages first pub 1983 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

257 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical mystery dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

362 pages first pub 1999 (editions) user-added

nonfiction biography history lighthearted medium-paced

368 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir emotional reflective slow-paced

269 pages first pub 2016 (editions) user-added

nonfiction memoir travel funny reflective fast-paced